JS Ariake (DD-109)
JS Ariake (DD-109) is the ninth ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 6 March 2002.[1]
_pulls_into_Pearl_Harbor.jpg.webp) JS Ariake on 23 June 2006 | |
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| Namesake: | Ariake (1959) |
| Ordered: | 1997 |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi, Kobe |
| Laid down: | 18 May 1999 |
| Launched: | 16 October 2000 |
| Commissioned: | 6 March 2002 |
| Homeport: | Sasebo |
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| Status: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Murasame-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 151 m (495 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in) |
| Draft: | 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in) |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 165 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter |
Construction and career
Ariake was laid down on May 18, 1999 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe as the 1997 plan and launched on October 16, 2000. Commissioned on March 6, 2002, was incorporated into the 6th Escort Corps of the 2th Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.
On September 13, 2020, she departed from Sasebo base for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia as the 37th dispatched anti-piracy action water squadron.[2]
Gallery
JS Ariake underway on 16 November 2002.
JS Ariake entering Pearl Harbor on 5 July 2006._131211-N-IG780-002_(11962718396).jpg.webp)
JS Ariake at Gulf of Oman on 11 December 2013._131211-N-IG780-105_(11962179793).jpg.webp)
JS Ariake at Gulf of Oman on 11 December 2013.
Citations
- "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2020/press_pdf/p20200828_01.pdf
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References
- Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). ISBN 0710630484
- Heihachiro Fujiki (August 2003). "Development of multi-purpose DDs for "8-8 escort flotilla". Ships of the World (in Japanese). Kaijinn-sha (614): 94–99.
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